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Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue

Poetry, wide open… The poetry editors reply…

Aug 16, 2018 / Our Readers, Stephanie Burt, and Carmen Giménez Smith

Manafort and Gates

Manafort and Gates Manafort and Gates

Their tales of corruption and thieving and fraud Don’t alter the president’s views in the slightest. He’s comfortable boasting, when all’s said and done, That he has attracted the…

Aug 16, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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Letters From the August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue Letters From the August 27-September 3, 2018, Issue

In-justice… America’s war habit… Editors’ note… Nicaragua: where the truth lies (web only)…

Aug 2, 2018 / Our Readers and John Perry

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The radical vision of the Martinique poet and politician.

Jul 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

from ‘TRIPAS’

from ‘TRIPAS’ from ‘TRIPAS’

Conduzco y conduces —carpoolers & Catholics— conduction wires to Latin.   “Brought together” —heads bowed as if praying— these women make   strange commun…

May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brandon Som

ah mulato   tu dedo

ah mulato tu dedo ah mulato tu dedo

dónde lo dejaste1 enredado en qué helice en qué fauce2 quién lo conserva de recuerdo en un frasquito de cristal3 quién lo usa para carnada con qué pescar tiburones4 quién lo apoya…

May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Mayra Santos-Febres

Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics

Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics

What is the relationship between Pound’s fascism and his poetry?

Mar 28, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Today’s Life and War

Today’s Life and War Today’s Life and War

From above, there are no souls, only bodies, but they are seen as hollow forms, moving the way atoms do in the universe — ​unseen.

Mar 21, 2018 / Dunya Mikhail

John Ashbery’s Day Job

John Ashbery’s Day Job John Ashbery’s Day Job

The poet as art critic.

Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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Letters From the April 2, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 2, 2018, Issue

No magazine is an island… Never mind Armageddon… Executive dysfunction… Behold the nothing that is…

Mar 8, 2018 / Our Readers

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